Pockets Quotes - Page 8

• There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

  Johnny Galecki

  Revenge, Sight, Air

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• Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

  Marc Andreessen

  Purpose, Underestimate, Computer

  "Andreessen: There Is No Tech Bubble (And the Smartphone Is Still Under-Hyped)" by Michael V. Copeland, www.wired.com. May 01, 2012.

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• I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Men, Hunters, Firsts

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.44, Rutgers University Press

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• Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Writing, Light

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

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• You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.

  Billy Squier

  Dream, Reality, Scene

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• Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

  Steve Goodman

  Musical, History Of Life, Fisherman

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• The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

  Dave Chappelle

  People, Mind, Way

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• Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

  Karen Mills

  Needs, Cash, Small Business

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• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  Vic Morrow

  Cutting, Stories, Woods

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• So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

  Aaron Neville

  Prayer, Book, Years

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• If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Men, Spirituality, Holy

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• When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

  Huey Lewis

  Play, Feelings, World

  Twitter post from Feb 6, 2018

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• I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

  Daniela Pestova

  Writing, Bumps, Paper

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• The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

  David Plouffe

  Teacher, Jobs, Games

  "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Disappointment, Choices, Majority

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• Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Night, Worry, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.

  David Letterman

  Sports, Coats, Lasts

  "Talk show hosts deemed 'hypocritical' for mocking Mitt Romney’s personal wealth" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2012.

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• A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

  David Letterman

  New York, Gun, Cities

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Responsibility, Childhood

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• I am essence of Rose Solitude
  my cheeks are laced with cognac
  my hips sealed with five satin nails
  I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
  flames
  between the musk of fat
  and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

  Jayne Cortez

  Dream, Flames, Essence

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

  Adam Braun

  Dream, Boys, Journey

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• The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

  Daniele Vare

  Art, Pride, Chinese

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• Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Perfect, Confusion

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• That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  World, Want, Way

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.50, Booklassic

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